Sanitizing HTML 5 with Perl 5

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HTML5::Sanitizer
Sanitizing HTML 5 with Perl 5

Uwe Voelker

XING AG

August 16th 2011

Uwe Voelker HTML5::Sanitizer

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1 Introduction

2 HTML parser choice

3 HTML5::Sanitizer interna

4 HTML5::Sanitizer usage

5 Conclusion


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HTML parser choice Task: WYSIWYG editor
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integrate WYSIWYG editor in XING
frontend architect researched open source solutions


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none was suited, mostly for security reasons
decision was made, to build it inhouse


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none was suited, mostly for security reasons
decision was made, to build it inhouse
goals: secure, share proﬁles (allowed tags) between frontend
and backend


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Team

Christopher Blum Ingo Chao Uwe Voelker
Javascript QA (HTML5/CSS) Perl


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Live example


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HTML parser on CPAN

HTML::Parser
HTML::TreeBuilder
HTML::TreeBuilder::LibXML
XML::LibXML
HTML::HTML5::Parser
Marpa::HTML
...


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started with HTML::HTML5::Parser (HH5P)
because it understands semantic of HTML 5 tags


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but it also did this:
http://example.com/?section=2&copy=3&lang=en


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http://example.com/?section=2©=3&lang=en


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http://example.com/?section=2©=3&lang=en
ﬁnal choice: XML::LibXML


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preprocessing (e. g. migration)


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parsing (HTML → DOM tree)


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converting (rebuild tree according to proﬁle)


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converting (rebuild tree according to proﬁle)
writing (DOM tree → HTML)


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Parsing HTML with XML::LibXML

use XML : : LibXML ;

my $ p a r s e r = XML : : LibXML−>new (
encoding => ’UTF−8 ’ ,
recover => 2 ,
keep blanks => 1 ,
no cdata => 1 ,
expand entities => 1 ,
no network => 1 ,
suppress errors => 1 ,
s u p p r e s s w a r n i n g s => 1 ,
);


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Parsing HTML with XML::LibXML

my $doc = $ p a r s e r −>p a r s e h t m l s t r i n g (
$html ,
{
no cdata => 1 ,
suppress errors => 1 ,
s u p p r e s s w a r n i n g s => 1 ,
},
);


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Converting - rebuilding DOM tree

loop through every node (only ELEMENT and TEXT)


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drop unwanted elements completely (e. g. <script>)
change unknown elements to <span>


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eventually change tag name (proﬁle)
transform (or copy) attributes


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eventually change tag name (proﬁle)
transform (or copy) attributes
proceed recursively with child nodes


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Writing HTML

mainly for additional escapes
could not ﬁnd a nice way to integrate this in XML::LibXML


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Writing HTML

mainly for additional escapes
could not ﬁnd a nice way to integrate this in XML::LibXML

$text =˜ s/&/&amp ; / g ;
$text =˜ s / ’ /'/g;# ’
$text =˜ s /”/&q u o t ; / g;#”
$text =˜ s/</& l t ; / g ;
$text =˜ s/>/&g t ; / g ;
$text =˜ s / ‘/&#9 6 ; / g ;
$text =˜ s /{/&#1 2 3 ; / g ;
$text =˜ s /}/&#1 2 5 ; / g ;


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# construct object
my $ s a n i t i z e r = HTML5 : : S a n i t i z e r −>new (
p r o f i l e => ’My : : P r o f i l e ’ ,
);

# c a l l process ()
my $ c l e a n = $ s a n i t i z e r −>p r o c e s s ( $html ) ;


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Proﬁle

you have to build your own


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Proﬁle

class with just one method: element($tag)
return undef or a hashref with:


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Proﬁle

class with just one method: element($tag)
return undef or a hashref with:
remove remove complete sub tree (boolean)
rename tag rename tag (string)
set attributes set these attributes (hashref)
check attributes check/transform these attributes (hashref)
set class set class (string)
add class add class from other attributes (hashref)


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Examples - script

completely remove <script> (including all children)


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Examples - script


{
remove => 1 ,
}


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Examples - script


{
remove => 1 ,
}

otherwise it would be converted to <span>
and all children processed recursively


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Examples - big

<big> → <span class=”big”>


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Examples - big

<big> → <span class=”big”>

{
r e n a m e t a g => ’ s p a n ’ ,
s e t c l a s s => ’ b i g ’ ,
}


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Examples - a

add rel=”nofollow” and target=” blank” to every link


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Examples - a

add rel=”nofollow” and target=” blank” to every link

{
s e t a t t r i b u t e s => {
rel => ’ n o f o l l o w ’ ,
t a r g e t => ’ b l a n k ’ ,
},
}


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Examples - font
r e n a m e t a g => ’ s p a n ’ ,
a d d c l a s s => { s i z e => ’ s i z e f o n t ’ } ,


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Examples - font
r e n a m e t a g => ’ s p a n ’ ,
a d d c l a s s => { s i z e => ’ s i z e f o n t ’ } ,

sub c l a s s s i z e f o n t {
my ( $ s e l f , $ v a l ) = @ ;
return unless $val ;
r e t u r n ’ s i z e −xx−l a r g e ’ i f $ v a l eq ’ 7 ’ ;
# ...
r e t u r n ’ s i z e −xx−s m a l l ’ i f $ v a l eq ’ 1 ’ ;

r e t u r n ’ s i z e −l a r g e r ’ i f $ v a l =˜ /ˆ+/;
r e t u r n ’ s i z e −s m a l l e r ’ i f $ v a l =˜ /ˆ −/;
return ;
}

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Debugging

if the result is not as expected, you can access intermediate
results:

my $ r e s = $ s a n i t i z e r −>p r o c e s s ( $html , { r e t u r n r e s u l t

# s e e HTML5 : : S a n i t i z e r : : R e s u l t
s a y $ r e s −>i n p u t ;
s a y $ r e s −>p r e p r o c e s s e d ;
s a y $ r e s −>p a r s e d d o c −>t o S t r i n g ;
s a y $ r e s −>c o n v e r t e d d o c −>t o S t r i n g ;
s a y $ r e s −>o u t p u t ;

p r i n t $ r e s −>d e b u g o u t p u t ;


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Repositories

HTML5::Sanitizer (backend)
http://github.com/xing/html5-sanitizer


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wysihtml5 (javascript frontend)
http://github.com/xing/wysihtml5


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wysihtml5 (javascript frontend)
http://github.com/xing/wysihtml5
Feedback? uwe@uwevoelker.de


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